Assessment of water Quality Index of Gr oundwater in Al-Khadhimiya city

Tariq  Abed Hussein; Ghayda  Y. AL Kind; Faris  Hammoodi AL Ani

doi:10.24996/ijs.2017.58.4A.12

Authors

Tariq Abed Hussein Building and Construction Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.
Ghayda Y. AL Kind Building and Construction Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.
Faris Hammoodi AL Ani Building and Construction Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24996/ijs.2017.58.4A.12

Keywords:

Correlation, Ground Water, Water quality index, Pollution

Abstract

The present study deals with the assessment of water Quality Index to theAl-
Khadhimiya Groundwater city, by collection groundwater from 13wells during four
seasons, subjecting the samples to a comprehensive physicochemical analysis. The
13 parameters have been considered: pH, total hardness, calcium, magnesium,
turbidity, nitrate, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solid, Sulfate, Chloride,
zinc, manganic, and iron, that are used for calculating the WQI. From the result
shown, the most groundwater quality lies in Unfit for human drinking purpose. The
wells (1 and 11) and wells (3 and 10) were a bad water quality for drinking purpose
since they lie in poor and in very poor respectively according to the WQI. The prime
causes of deterioration groundwater quality are turbidity, Hardness, Cl, SO4, Ca and
Mg.